tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184490452024-03-17T06:47:59.568-05:00Joker's Training JournalJoker is a <em>faixa preta</em> (black belt) in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a black belt in Jeet Kune Do with Team McVicker. He is a yellow-white arm band in Dragonleg Muay Thai. He was the chief instructor of Goshin Jitsu, an eclectic martial arts club and has black belts in two different styles of karate. He's fought muay thai, jiu-jitsu, and mixed-martial arts.Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.comBlogger389125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-1462863127839076082024-03-16T22:41:00.001-05:002024-03-17T06:47:26.027-05:00Lerdsila Muay Femur Seminar<p> I headed to <a href="https://toplevelgym.com">Top Level Gym</a> for a muay thai seminar by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lerdsila_muaythaiiyarin/">Lerdsila</a> in his muay femur style. It was fascinating to watch an elite athlete demonstrate not only the physical tactics but the fight logic that predicated why it should be done this way. Lerdsila also taught the content really well making it a rewarding seminar.</p><p>He talked about his mentality toward fighting which was that he fought because it was fun. Winning and losing happens to everyone so the focus should be the joy of performing not the rewards or penalties of the result. He encouraged using play and games to develop this passion and to worry less about winning or losing.</p><p>Some of the techniques and tactics we covered, included:</p><div data-en-clipboard="true" data-pm-slice="1 3 []" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Leg cover rear kick - leg evade rear kick - rear head kick (the evasion loads the kick)</div><div data-en-clipboard="true" data-pm-slice="1 3 []" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Leg cover rear kick - leg evade rear kick - new lead foot kick to the butt - jab off new lead (trying to provoke anger in your opponent)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rear kick - fake rear kick - lead jumping head kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rear kick - fake rear kick to side kick to thigh. Next time fake the side kick to thigh but throw to face</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rear low kick - fake to opposite crescent kick “flick” - rear head kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rear mid level kick - step lateral, fake the kick - rear tiip</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Lead tiip - fake lead tiip - jump rear oblique tiip to thigh - fake lead tiip - jump rear body tiip</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Tiip - fake tiip question mark kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Parry jab - rear leg kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Parry jab - cross</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Parry jab - rear elbow</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Parry jab - rear head kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Parry jab - step back cross so it falls short - rear head kick</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Clinch defense </div><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li>Two hands inside pushing the shoulders, do this first to make them commit more next time</li><li>Back step to a near “horse stance” and deliver an upward, back elbow with your former rear side</li><li>With inside control, turn an oversized steering wheel, push one side and pull on the other</li><li>Bob-n-weave their clinch</li></ul><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Knee defense (opposite stances)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><ul><li>Their rear knee: step forward a little and extend your lead arm pushing them in the shoulder/lateral chest</li><li>Their lead knee - angle off to the side, inside the knee and underhook their leg as you cinch the waist with your other hand, trip by kneeing the cinched side as you lift.</li></ul></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Jab-vertical jab-belly jab-lead hook play - basically one side plays with the lead hand in all the angles it can go while the other side defends </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Single leg drills - you would never just stand on one leg but for balance and kicking development, have one partner stand on one leg while the other feeds</div><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li>Defend off one leg; your partner tries to hit you with hands or feet and you have to use your raised leg to tiip - kick - leg cover.</li><li>Hop knee then defend - your partner hold their gloves T shoulder height you do a jumping knee and switch legs, your partner then tries to land light punches.</li><li>Superman punch drills - stay on your lead leg, throw 20 Superman punches without putting your foot down</li></ul><p>We did leg conditioning by kicking our partner’s legs lightly.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_TZTuCpAd3D21D2olUy87eWZo18N3UqcX4P6Pl-U8WxtKZM6ng0hSuCHCOjaF-tOKpECRnvedCneUpiavW_lx82csiCg6g0_6s4Grl9lIR2zTp4WUR4IImMNhkQejh7vjfOTW-xSJRo2xRqsqcNXRrEQLqpA47wVnCpXhU5E-C3Rg8U94Bltow/s4032/IMG_3923.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_TZTuCpAd3D21D2olUy87eWZo18N3UqcX4P6Pl-U8WxtKZM6ng0hSuCHCOjaF-tOKpECRnvedCneUpiavW_lx82csiCg6g0_6s4Grl9lIR2zTp4WUR4IImMNhkQejh7vjfOTW-xSJRo2xRqsqcNXRrEQLqpA47wVnCpXhU5E-C3Rg8U94Bltow/w480-h640/IMG_3923.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com05002 Madison Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46227, USA39.6930874 -86.137168411.382853563821158 -121.2934184 68.003321236178849 -50.980918399999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-78965377982389221282020-05-20T23:22:00.001-05:002020-05-20T23:34:00.472-05:00Illinois COVID-19 Reopening and What I Think It Means for Combat Sports <b><i><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">Disclaimer: What follows is not medical advice. The best way to avoid COVID-19 is NOT to train until herd immunity has been established or a vaccine discovered</span><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">. This is a theoretical discussion and nothing more. Proceed at your own risk.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">Let's start by being absolutely clear: we do not and will not have a treatment for COVID-19 in the foreseeable future. If you or your loved one gets a bad case of this the best modern medicine can do is support your body while we hope you recover. Second, a vaccine remains over a year away. Finally, we are weeks to months away from herd immunity, if we can even develop that with a virus that has rapidly mutated into several strains. If you want to minimize risk to yourself, your loved ones, your friends, and coworkers the only things that will do that are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;"><b>Clean</b>: Hand washing or sanitizing for at least 20 seconds before and after touching yourself, another human, or an object. If your academy were to open this would basically mean at the beginning of practice, before <span style="font-style: italic;">each</span> round, after <span style="font-style: italic;">each</span> round, and before leaving class. It also means showering thoroughly before and after practice. It means thoroughly wiping down each piece of nonlaunderable equipment with bleach wipes. So that’s a <span style="font-weight: bold;">lot</span> of sanitizer and bleach solution.</span></li>
<li><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;"><b>Cover</b>: Wearing a mask that decreases the spread of droplets. Not all masks are created equal so it needs to be a mask that blocks viral droplet particles. All masks are not created equal and masks are designed to protect others from you not you from them. We do not know if masks remain effective as we sweat and get them wet. Note that exercise training masks and running masks contain filters that viral droplets go right through. They allegedly are rated for pollution and bacteria much larger than the diameter of a droplet. They look cool but they won’t do much other than provide an illusion of safety.</span></li>
<li><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;"><b>Clear</b>: Social distancing or being at least 6 feet away from other people. Thus the ultimate way to stay safe is to train by yourself. This is a great way to get stronger, more flexible, and better cardio. But it is not going to improve your technique or your timing. If your academy does open up strongly consider a single dedicated training partner and only training in classes of less than 10 people. If you are or live with some at high risk, don't train.</span></li>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">You are likely safer in an area with a greater volume of distribution, e.g. outside, than in a small volume of distribution, e.g. in the academy or gym.</span></div>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">The <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-pritzker-plan-reopen-illinois-20200506-erfvitdovffmzd7ativx4hj57q-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">Illinois Reopening Plan</a> is a regionalized 5 phase plan that can move us as a community closer to normal if public health indicators are favorable or reassert more restrictions if they are not. The plan uses cases, testing availability, and hospital resources (e.g. beds and ventilators) in predefined geographic areas. In the central part of the state we appear to be in Phase 2 with a good chance of moving to Phase 3 in June 2020. We don't need to rely on laypeople determining risk, the phases will shift based on public health data.</span></div>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">There is, of course, no specific instructions for combat sports in my state’s plan, the nearest things that we might be compared to are health clubs. This is a specious comparison, in health clubs, you can continue to social distance more than 6 feet, wear masks, and sanitize your hands between exercises while still getting a fulfilling workout. Combat sports like boxing, wrestling, muay thai, kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and mixed-martial arts however all involve core doctrines that include significant physical interaction and contact. USA Wrestling has released its </span><a href="https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2020/May/15/USA-Wrestling-Return-to-the-Mat-Guidelines-released" target="_blank">Return to the Mat Guidelines</a>, a phased approach that like the Illinois Reopening Plan avoids or minimizes organized, group, physical contact for the duration of time before herd immunity or wide-spread vaccine deployment. The Illinois Reopening Plan recommends masks and social distancing until the last phase. In phase 3 groups of up to 10 people can gather and in phase 4 up to 50 people with appropriate behavioral alterations. One-on-one personal training and small group classes may begin in phase 3. </div>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">Reopening gyms and academies like they were before the pandemic is unrealistic before we have a vaccine or herd immunity. That said, these are small businesses that will not get sufficient support from the state or federal government. It is up to the martial arts as a community to save our gyms and schools. This may mean paying for classes at the same or reduced rate as instruction goes more virtual and classes are limited in both contact and population density. If we lose the societal checks on this novel coronavirus too early, <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0633_article?fbclid=IwAR3XeOmXIZMJDqrOkgIKzdV1_Sm4g5isCrIsa9q6PRiyScdYaR_l7gHFFLY" target="_blank">academies and clubs will be the hot spots of their communities</a>, the source of deaths for the old and the medically compromised. If we maximize social distancing with dedicated training partners, frequent hand sanitization, and mask adherence, we mitigate this risk. This means that practice will be a lot more hands-off and more often without interactions that we felt were the norm for our training. For example, as detailed in other plans starting with solo training and then adding partner drills at range (e.g. long-range stick or pad work) and forgoing body to body contact, e.g. knee play, wrestling or grappling until much later than anyone wants. It also means getting frequent testing, likely every two weeks as they become increasingly available and free. It means symptom checklists before each practice, likely completed on-line at a distance, and temperature checks at the door. It means a thorough cleaning of the gym and equipment before and after each session.</span></div>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">I do not believe that we are prevented from rolling, sparring, and other close-quarters work for the duration of the pandemic. However this will likely mean forming “pods” or small groups not including immediate family. In other words, it’s about finding one “monogamous" training partner that you will train with for the duration, either privately or in group settings. There is a two to three week “cooling off” period before switching partners to limit spread</span><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">. Your risk is likely decreased if you </span><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">only train with that person in a private setting, but with symptom checklists, strict hygiene protocols, temperature checks, frequent testing, and mask use. Masks are likely a custom made cloth mask that can withstand the rigors of training. Based on the Illinois plan I would not consider this sort of training until Phase 3 and it is likely more prudent to wait until Phase 4. Best case for Central Illinois that would be July. Any negative change in phase would place an immediate moratorium on training.</span></div>
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<span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">However, if this pod model means you quit your academ</span><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">y then we are destroying the art by eliminating the small businesses that are martial arts studios. We must balance our personal training needs by considering using pods while </span><span style="--inversion-type-color: simple;">simultaneously supporting our academies and clubs. One way of doing this would be to run social distancing academy practices in parallel with pod classes virtually. Thus people who had access to private training spaces could work with their designated partner more closely without significantly increasing risk to others. Simultaneously those without a private training space could workout in a different fashion with alternate but still likely minimal risk. If things improve we could work gradually closer to how things used to be while realizing that they will never return to that baseline.</span></div>
Stay safe.Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-5259557070498160712020-05-06T23:38:00.002-05:002020-05-06T23:38:46.567-05:00Commentary on Reopening Combat Sports in the COVID-19 PandemicLet me preface this with a little about non-combat sports me. I’m a doctor. An internist by training who now does mostly palliative care with some bioethics. So I’m trained to be an adult person doctor either in the clinic or the hospital. I have focused my practice in palliative care, the area of medicine that deals with the quality of life and wellbeing in people who have advanced, life-limiting illnesses. I see a lot of suffering and I see a lot of death. Obviously from this blog I have substantial interest and experience in combat sports including Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, and Mixed-Martial Arts. Yes these two interests seem widely antithetical but I’m complex like that.<br />
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I am NOT an epidemiologist, infectious disease physician, or public health expert. So this is my opinion on medical topics that I have some familiarity with but I am NOT an expert on. Sadly I do not know of any of these specialists who also train in combat sports, who could likely give us better guidance. I will further caveat this with that ANYONE who trains has a secondary gain in their gyms and academies opening up again. We need to acknowledge this implicit bias exists in any conversation where those who participate have a deep-seated desire to get back on the mats and into the ring. I know I do. I want to train so bad I can taste it.<br />
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You may be familiar with Dr. Chris Moriarty’s<a data-mce-href="https://www.grapplearts.com/openingupbjj/" href="https://www.grapplearts.com/openingupbjj/"> Guidelines for Opening Up Jiu-Jitsu Academies During the COVID-19 Pandemic</a>. It is an interesting read. Dr. Moriarty has certainly put a lot of thought into this. But if I agreed with everything he suggests I wouldn’t be writing a commentary. I do suggest reviewing this document as it is clear that the intent is to resume training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as safely as possible. I cringe a little bit at the use of the word “Guideline” as typically in medicine these are based on research and consensus opinion by a large group of experts rather than one person. I believe he is spot on with this being a phased approach with different activities being acceptable at different times. Personally, I would suggest following your state’s reopening plan rather than the federal plan as your state is more likely to police, fine, or incarcerate you if the case of any intentional or accidental wrongdoing. Also even in neighboring states, such as Illinois and Indiana, can have massively differed. I plan a follow-up discussing my state of Illinois and Indiana’s plan at a later date.<br />
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I agree with Dr. Moriarty that the first part of returning to our academies will involve careful planning and continued social distancing which makes practice largely composed of solo drill and conditioning, due to social distancing and in a mask to limit transmission. We know little about how this novel coronavirus travels through the air so we do not know the optimal distance for avoiding this kind of transmission. For example with the guess that each student requires 64 square feet that means that a 1000 square foot space can only hold 15 students. That likely means longer hours of operation to accommodate everyone and a lot of cleaning between classes. This may be prohibitive in reopening smaller academies in a financially stable manner.<br />
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When COVID-19 initially hit we all were inundated with fever being a ubiquitous sign of this disease. We are learning that <a data-mce-href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nearly-all-nyc-area-covid-19-hospitalizations-had-comorbidities-67476" href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nearly-all-nyc-area-covid-19-hospitalizations-had-comorbidities-67476">fever is not as common a presenting symptom</a> as we thought. This means using the absence of fever as an objective marker of who is “safe” to train with is likely spurious and a waste of time and resources. I do agree that a checklist to limit risk makes a lot of sense but will be difficult to realistically implement. As a clinician working in an area with community spread and with active COVID-19 cases within our hospital walls I witness abundant accidental behavior in myself and others that increase the risk of transmission. We would rapidly violate the checklist for everyone if we were aware and honest about their daily activities. We are not.<br />
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I live and practice in a community where rapid testing is available. Turn around is about 24 hours. However we don’t have enough testing swabs and medium to test people once or twice per week. Besides no insurance is going to pay for testing this often. And the risks of <a data-mce-href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMvcm2010260" href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMvcm2010260">repeated use of deep nasopharyngeal swab sampling</a> have not been tested. In other words, imagine having someone shove an extra-long Q-tip into the back of your nose, roughly at a distance into our skull where your ears create a line twice per week. No thanks. In addition, we don’t know what immunity looks like and we don’t know the meaning of what positive serum antibodies actually is. Positive antibodies likely mean you are immune to the strain that caused the antibody reaction but for how long and how well to other strains is unclear. Furthermore you don’t have to be infected and immunity doesn’t mean you cannot transmit COVID-19, it could just be on your hands or equipment.<br />
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Many reopening plans have included the use of 50% capacity, arguably as a way to help continue social distancing. That makes sense for fitness gyms where limiting capacity limits population density using equipment hypothetically making it easier for people to spread out. However limiting capacity makes less sense for combat sports, the entire point of which is to interact at close range and as a consequence of this lead to the swap of sweat, tears, snot, spit, and other mucus.<br />
Dr. Moriarty does a good job of saying if you have risk factors, live, or work with people who do (such as healthcare staff) then training may be out of the question for you. We don’t know how to best mitigate those risks but we do know distancing ourselves from others decreases the risk of transmission. It is up to all of us to ponder as individuals what our decisions can do once we have more autonomy to do so.<br />
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I do not believe that training is closed to us until a vaccine is developed (and not simply because the development of a coronavirus vaccine has never been done before). I am saying that we may be better served by adapting state reopening plans to the specific conditions that combat sports have and look at the best way to mitigate risk. Dr. Moriarty has several good ideas for decreasing risk, some of which I believe are less than realistically achievable. I encourage more discussion on this topic to get the best answer for returning to the martial arts that keep us fit, sane, and make us better people.Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-38596535022510863212019-10-07T00:34:00.001-05:002019-10-07T00:34:47.427-05:00Midoriyama-jitsu<p>Wrestling practice today working on set-ups:</p>
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<li>Kiss the bicep / Steering wheel: From a neck and inside arm tie, drop your weight as you try to push your partners head to their arm.</li>
<li>Snap to underhook: From neck tie, switch step out of the way to punch the opposite undertook in. Get a praying mantis grip on their head with your tie hand</li>
<li>Kiss the bicep reaction: When your partner stands upright, use a penetration step to place your forehead on the center of the chest. This is an inelastic collision, your head is stuck. Now grabbing the near leg step laterally with you lead foot as you grab their other leg. Now pull there legs past your legs as you transition from head pressure to shoulder pressure into the side mount.</li>
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<div>High crotch set-up requires you to "open the window”. Two options shown today were when with the kiss the bicep set-up or when they overreach your tie. Take a penetration step and roll to your knee, grabbing between their legs and clasping the back of their thigh. Step through with the rear leg and punch with your free hand to turn the corner, becoming perpendicular with your opponent hips. Overgrip your wrist and look toward their contralateral scapula.</div>
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<li>Use your overgrip hand to grip their anterior thigh and grab their opposite leg with your original high crotch hand. Step in front of them as you pull their legs laterally past your rear foot. Your shoulder will go to their abdomen and you will end up in a low side side control.</li>
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<div>Next we worked on some ground-n-pound (GnP) principles:</div>
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<li>From the situation where they have fallen in front of you, use your rear hand to grab the ankle of the ipsilateral leg. Lift it at drive it laterally, kick the lateral and posterior side of their leg. Throw their legs across your body and away, insert your lead shin behind their thighs. Throw a solid rear shot. Step past their hip into knee on stomach, throw three punches.</li>
<li>From the low side control, free your superior arm and obtain head control. Snack your arm under their head and grip the anterior side of their axilla. Throw three downward elbows to the flank. Then control their biceps with this hand and deliver three forearm smashes.</li>
<li>From knee on stomach throw your lead hand, rear hand, lead hand, and rear hook. Jump to the other side and repeat for the round.</li>
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<p>While the junior students worked on our fundamental self-defense techniques, senior students worked on the Kesa Gatame Kill System.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G0Xf_CJzE6M" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-25812320864665630162019-09-12T22:17:00.001-05:002019-09-12T22:17:01.765-05:00Kimura Trap Transition To Rear Mount<p>These are some notes on some work in progress. Your opponent is in four points and you are controlling the back from the side. Reach across and obtain a<em> kimura trap</em> on the far arm grabbing their wrist with your lateral hand and using your medial hand to underhook the forearm and grip your wrist, Briskly pull up making lifting their chest and twisting their torso.</p>
<p>If they do not defend their near hip, place your near hook and pull them to rear mount by placing your free hook in the space created by your kimura trap as you pull them laterally,</p>
<p>If they do defend their near hip by closing space and compressing this area, pull them laterally toward you by your kimura trap and place the near hook and then the far hook.</p>
<p>Once you have the rear mount you can either transition to straight arm bar or try to do a reverse Americana by bracing your elbow against the back of their head and pulling their wrist posteriorly.</p>
<p>You can also hook their near arm with your leg and you can roll your hip over their head as you pull them to crucifix</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-17145517106935132862019-09-08T23:08:00.001-05:002019-09-08T23:08:16.635-05:00Fall 2019 Introduction to Wrestling and Notes on the Figure Four<p>In the Fall 2019 Goshin Jitsu Mixed-Martial Arts introduction to wrestling we started with the pummel. The pummel exchanges overunder positions with your partner, you switch sides by slapping your chest on the overhook side and swim through, under their arm pit. Your partner does the same thing on the other side to switch the over under. Your lead foot is on the underhook side. One of the keys in the pummel is to make your opponent carry your weight, pull on their underhook arm to disrupt their posture. We worked on repositioning our opponent with the pummel. The way to do this is to drop step a quarter turn with your underhook side, pulling with the underhook as you push with your head. Their foot should make a loud thud demonstrating that you have shifted their weight to one of their legs. You can then easily pick up the other leg for a takedown.</p>
<p>Next we worked on using the head and arm tie to do the same thing. The head and arm tie means you have gripped their neck with one hand and are controlling the other arm inside their biceps Drop step away from the arm tie as you try to make them kiss their bicep by pushing their head toward their arm. They should pop up, as they do the head tie hand pushes their shoulder as you grab behind their knee of their lead leg.</p>
<p>The figure four is a solid submission grip. If they have a joint you can twist it enough for a submission with the increased leverage of the grip. Today we did pattern recognition for the <em>Americana</em> and <em>kimura</em>. We did the “<a href="http://training.jokerjitsu.com/2007/06/grueling-days-of-summer.html">surrendering gorilla</a>” basically doing sit-ups in the closed guard and getting “batting practice” looking for figure four set-ups. We did the “figure four clock face” (or <a href="http://training.jokerjitsu.com/2009/03/two-hands-are-better-than-one.html">Every 60°</a>) where from the side mount you look for <em>Americana</em>, straight arm lock, and <em>kimura</em> on one arm depending on the angle of their arm.</p>
<p>I often have trouble with opponents “pulling through” when I attack with the <em>kimura</em>. They simply pull their arm toward their opposite shoulder, trapping my overhook and putting me in a reverse <em>kimura</em>. I have two tactics for mitigating this:</p>
<p>First, from the closed guard or half guard I straight arm their wrist backward, behind the plane of their body. Then, I pivot my body to their arm, and secure the overhand grip. Now i force the bend in their arm and pull their elbow to my chin. To finish I attempt to place their hand behind their head.</p>
<p>The second way I attack from the closed guard is to create a shin shield on the inside of their elbow. I keep a solid grip on their wrist and then reach over their arm to secure the figure four grip. Only once I have a solid grip and have broken them down do I slide my knee out a finish the submission.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-36710370575986723042019-08-18T22:25:00.001-05:002019-08-18T22:25:57.974-05:00Fusion Cooking<p>Today I covered some mixed-martial arts style grappling from the closed guard. The first was a series I picked up from <a href="https://www.fightinstrong.com/training-babu2/">BJJ Mastermind II</a>:</p>
<p>From closed guard clinch your opponents head like a <em>muay thai </em>plum and use the other hand to block punches. Catch their arm off the punches and place shin shield in their biceps, cupping their triceps with your hand. This should roll their arm, rotating their hand posteriorly, setting up the <em>kimura</em>.</p>
<p>If they defend the <em>kimura</em> by cupping their thigh, use the hand nearest their head to reach posteriorly and wrap their head grabbing their chin. Drop your arm on top of their head like you are gripping a football. Scoot your hips backwards to create space on the contralateral side from your grip, feed your hand in to secure the guillotine. Lift your hips and arc toward the ipsilateral side as their head.</p>
<p>If they defend the <em>kimura</em> by extending their arm, retain your grip on their wrist and cup their elbow with your other hand. Pull it over your head, trapping their triceps against your head. I pull with my legs to get the proximal insertion of their triceps against my head/neck. Wrap their neck in a deep figure four putting your free hand against your head.</p>
<p>You can also use this position to block punches, then swim underneath their punching arm with your contralateral arm to obtain a rear neck choke position.</p>
<p>We also discussed using the this set-up and setting up a shoulder clinch: block the strike and then roll your arm underneath it, Gable grip at their shoulder, pulling their torso down. Now slide out to this side on the contralateral hip, place your top foot in the near hip and place your knee on the shoulder. Essentially a vice grip with your legs on their torso. Pinch their wrist between your shoulder and head. Now slide down their arm with your Gable grip until you are just proximal to the elbow. Complete the arm bar.</p>
<p>If they bend their arm with their hand pointing inferiorly, hug their arm at the elbow with your top arm grabbing the biceps of the opposite arm. This hand grabs their wrist for the <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1552158741540344&id=221132547976310">reverse <em>kimura</em></a>. If they bend the arm with their hand pointing superiorly, shuck it past you and take their back.</p>
<p>If they attempt to stack, keep pressure on their shoulder to force the contralateral leg to extend, raising their hips more on this side. Open your guard and inset the hook on this side. Use the forearm on this side to lift under their chin as you elevate your hook and sweep them.</p>
<p>Next Matt covered the Russian tie, starting with using a shrug to lift their tie off your neck. Reach across with your opposite side hand to grab their wrist. Use the same side hand to under hand and grip the anterior deltoid, placing pressure on their arm at the shoulder joint. If they are carrying your weight, release the wrist grip, undertook and grip the posterior deltoid. Free your other hand and grab their contralateral hip. Now step forward and guide them to the floor, pull slightly with your hip grip to pull their back toward you (placing them in a less defendable ground position).</p>
<p>If you can not break them down, fold their forearm toward them and figure four, lifting with your hips. Their reaction should be to push their arm downwards, again allowing you to guide them to the floor.</p>
<p>From the wrist grip and posterior axillary undertook, you can place your near foot behind their foot and as you push with the near forearm lift their foot to your opposite hand. Set up the single leg of your choice. If they step back to avoid the sweep, step forward and pull them to the mat. Alternatively sweep their opposite foot.</p>
<p>Lastly Adam ran through a trapping sequence off the jab cross. For the jab he did a <em>split entry</em>, that is catch and move the head to the outside while jabbing/eye poke/neck shot. Then cover the cross on the inside with a similar shot using your other hand. Roll the cover hand over their forearm and pass it across your body to your opposite hand, freeing your near hand for the uppercut to the jaw. Now fold their hand down with their elbow up to pull them close to allow your near hand tie their neck in a half Nelson. Knee, elbow, or throw as desired. </p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-74411338835850430942019-02-10T21:39:00.001-06:002019-02-10T21:39:36.195-06:00Kick Defense Agility Drills<ol>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong></li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Leg Kick</strong>: Lead Leg Cover</li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Leg Kick</strong>: Lead Leg Cover, Rear Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Evasion</strong>, <strong>Lead Kick</strong></li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Leg Kick: <strong><strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong></strong></li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Leg Kick</strong>: Lead Leg Cover</li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Leg Kick</strong>: Lead Leg Cover, Rear Leg Kick: <strong>Lead Leg Evasion</strong>, <strong>Lead Kick</strong></li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Body Cover </strong>(knee to elbow, elbow sits on lateral surface of thigh, glove on head)</li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover</li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Kick Catch</strong>, <strong>Lead Kick</strong></li>
<li>Jab: <strong>Catch</strong>, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cut Kic</strong><strong>k</strong></li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cross Body Cover </strong>(lead knee comes to contralateral elbow, elbow on the medial side of the knee, glove on head)</li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cross Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover</li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cross Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Kick Catch</strong>, <strong>Lead Kick</strong></li>
<li>Jab:<strong> Catch</strong>, Cross:<strong> Catch</strong>, Lead Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cross Body Cover</strong>, <strong>Rear Body Kick</strong>: Lead Body Cover, Rear Body Kick: <strong>Lead Cut </strong><strong>Kick</strong></li>
</ol>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-89301744459986888992018-04-18T23:35:00.001-05:002018-04-18T23:35:58.127-05:00Pruning the decision tree, retrieving the shears, and finding a point<p><strong>Pruning the decision tree</strong>: The first drill we did tried to work skills to set-up reaction. If you use one or two longer range techniques, such as a jab, jab-cross, kick, jab kick, your opponent will either be hit or react. If you do it again they will typically counter. On your third application, you should then be able to pick up their counter and find the opening it presents. It is critical to move in, deliver your opener, and move out to read the response. The move in to deliver the opener and react to the likely response. The entire point is that, in a fight you have to create reaction in order to land effectively. You have to be brave enough to place the opening bet but patient enough to grow the pot. You have to cultivate your pitch before you seal the deal. In other words play the long game to find the rapid victory.</p>
<p><strong>Retrieving the shears</strong>: The second drill we did tried to explain how to regain momentum, when someone is deliver their opener pushing you toward the ropes, how to recover the action. In it we tried to read the first opener and react to the second, pivot stepping or countering to shift momentum toward your opponent. Key to this is interrupting your opponents striking and striking to push them into the ropes. The fight swings on a pendulum the fighter who controls the angle and speed of it’s swing is most likely to win.</p>
<p><strong>What’s the point when my technique fails</strong>: The point is to learn, to grow, to try something new, to realize the limits if your knowledge and work to develop to a higher level, to conquer fear, to realize the lesson inside the fight in the gym is not one of win or lose but how adversity can be challenged and we can become better complete human beings because of it. The point is that that job you want, that raise you need, and that girl you like aren’t going to punch you in the face (and if they do not with a fraction of the power I can), so go for it.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-1475864188056356542018-03-11T21:00:00.000-05:002018-03-12T21:02:24.009-05:00Wrestling Practice Notes<div>
<b>Double leg</b></div>
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Use your rear hand as a distance gauge by placing it on their forehead. Use the other hand to wrap the neck, pull toward. They should reach to your shoulder. Use your tie hand to lift their triceps and shuffle in, placing your head on the lateral side of their ribs. Grab their thigh with your ipsilateral arm and step through with your opposite leg as you grab the thigh on this side. Drive laterally as you pull on the legs.</div>
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<b>Russian Tie to Reverse Double Leg</b></div>
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If your opponent collar ties use a two handed baseball grip and rotate your shoulder as you pull this across your body. Leverage their arm by driving your elbow into their triceps. Retain the grip on the wrist and with your near hand grab a grip at the biceps. Squat, putting your weight on their arm. Now hook their near foot and lift to your far hand. Pull with this hand and reach behind their leg to tap the far knee.</div>
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From the pummel use the under hook to pull as the overhook pushes and drop step making them plant. Now shove their underhook arm down and reach across with your underhook to pull their triceps across. Grab their far hip with your free hand and drive with your head into their scapula, pulling them to the mat in 4 points.</div>
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From the Russian tie, reach up with your wrist control hand to their biceps and transfer your top control to the far hip. Pull them laterally to 4-points.</div>
Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-33030085327371149362018-03-04T00:49:00.001-06:002018-03-04T00:49:34.376-06:00Jab-Cross Stationary Read<h3>Warm-Up</h3>
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<li>Jab - rock back - rock forward - rock back - step - cross using quarter turn of the base foot (walk up and down the mats x2)</li>
<li>Lead kick walk: Switch step - throw “kick” by raising knee and flicking straight up - drop foot for next step (walk up and down the mats x2)</li>
<li>Rear kick walk: Step - throw vertical flick kick as above -drop foot for next step (x2)</li>
<li>Alternating kick walk: Walk throwing alternating vertical flick kicks (x1)</li>
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<h3>Set-Up</h3>
<p>Step jab-cross, retreat step, fake jab (range finger), bring rear foot to heel of lead (L position), and throw lead kick to inside of lead leg, recover backwards to opposite stance and then step back into original stance (2 steps out to open range and look…to see what they will react with.</p>
<h3>Stepping In</h3>
<p>If they are simply being defensive it is a reasonable risk to step into range and attack.</p>
<p>Option #1: Using the above set-up, place your kicking leg in a new stance (i.e. drop from kick right into the stance, no recovery) and throw cross - hook - cross (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5BXUUB-Lx/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video</a>)</p>
<p>Option #1A (lead kick): After the cross - hook - cross, throw a lead head kick by driving the knee toward the head, flicking the kick to the head (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5CDHuBBbf/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video versus Southpaw</a>)</p>
<p>Option #1A (rear kick): After the cross - hook - cross, slap with the lead hand as you pivot off to the lead side, (if ipsilateral leads) point your lead foot at their rear foot and deliver a rear body kick (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5By8VB0oz/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video</a>).</p>
<p>Option #2A (opponent is hunkering down): After the kick, drop the foot wider as you step in and deliver the upward elbow between their guard (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5CY7Chy6S/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video</a>).</p>
<p>Option #2B (opponent is hunkering down): After the kick, drop the foot in the middle, grab their head with your rear hand and their same side arm with your free hand and pull into the knee. You can drop the kneeing foot down, switching stance, pull the arm down on the side you have control and deliver a horizontal elbow to the jaw (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5C0kyBdcN/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video</a>).</p>
<p>Option #3: After the kick, rechamber foot near the rear leg, cat stance-like. Throw the <em>tiip</em> and step forward bringing your rear foot to your front foot, chamer the <em>tiip</em> again:</p>
<p>Option #3A: If they do nothing, <em>tiip</em> again</p>
<p>Option #3B: If they defend by using the lead hand to hook what they think is an incoming <em>tiip</em>, throw the cross (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5DFZJBs53/?taken-by=goshinjitsumma">video</a>).</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-70405927320875044212018-01-17T22:05:00.001-06:002018-01-17T22:05:42.340-06:00Use your hips, punching and throwing<p>Little pre-semester start practice tonight and we worked on combining striking with throwing, specifically the <em>ogoshi</em> (hip toss). We initiated each exchange with a jab cross, our partner threw back a cross.</p>
<p>The “Turn and Burn” Versions:</p>
<p>Straight cross: Use a catch parry and hook their cross wide to allow you to setup the underhook. Use your free hand to elbow the face then step across and turn to do the hip toss.</p>
<p>Haymaker: Use the SPEAR and use the near elbow to the face, step across hooking the head with the far arm and hip toss (counter the strike). Alternatively wrap the head with your near arm and turn the opposite way to hip toss (with the strike).</p>
<p>“Side Clinich” Versions</p>
<p>Straight cross: Use a catch parry and hook their cross wide to allow you to setup the underhook. Step up next to their hips and clinch from the side, grabbing their far arm with your anterior hand, your hips perpendicular to theirs, break their posture laterally away from you, step through a hip toss</p>
<p>Haymaker: Use the SPEAR and step into the side clinch as above to hip toss.</p>
<p>We also talk about the to use the side clinch to setup the single leg and knee tap. We also looked at the sacrifice throw to the back by sitting to your butt and placing your posterior leg, straight behind their legs. Use your dropping momentum to transfer pulling energy to their hips and pull them to their back.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-43002407346414337282017-12-02T23:41:00.001-06:002017-12-02T23:41:12.913-06:00Kicking It - Ian Ransburg Muay Thai Seminar<p>Reviewed kick defense, the base foot is flat on the mat and the base leg straightens. The check leg is at an angle, as if you had a “V” coming from your center line.</p>
<p>Jab - Rear Kick - Lead Kick: Your partner picks up the kicks with the leg check on the ipsilateral side.</p>
<p>Jab - Fake Rear Kick - Rear Kick: Throw the jab rear kick combination, if your opponent is checking, fake the rear kick by rotating the hip, tricking them to defend with the leg check. When they put it back down, kick the leg.</p>
<p>Jab - Fake Rear Kick - Lead Kick: Set-up the jab-kick combination. Fake the rear kick to make them leg check, freezing on one leg for an instant, switch step 45° across their center with your rear leg, and throw the kick to the opposite side.</p>
<p>Jab - Fake Rear Kick - Rear <em>Tiip</em> (the Heatseaker): Again set-up the jab-kick combination. If they are leg checking then turn the kick into a <em>tiip</em> by rotating the foot down and medially before thrusting forward.</p>
<p>Have your partner practice the same side and cross side leg check by throwing jab - rear kick - lead kick. To defend, leg check laterally for the first kick then across the centerline to pick up the other kick. Step back in the opposite stance then walk back to your original stance.</p>
<p>Jab - Fake Lead Kick - Sweep: Provoke the cross leg check, by faking a powerful lead kick by stepping in, then use the opposite leg to kick sweep their legs as your same side arm comes across their guard.</p>
<p>Low-line Kick Evasion: Your partner comes with the jab-rear kick combination and you leg check. The next time they do this, roll onto the flat of your rear foot and retract the leg to the opposite stance, landing on the ball of this foot. Return a kick.</p>
<p>High-line Kick Evasion: Roll your lead arm so that the forearm is perpendicular with the floor, elbow pointed laterally, rock back on the toes of your lead foot as you lean backward to allow the head kick to fly over your chest and face. Return a kick.</p>
<p>Ian also talked about using the jab and the cross to hide bringing the rear foot to lead foot to throw the lead offensive <em>tiip</em>. He also discussed tactics for closing with a larger opponent, including (1) Throwing the jab to the rear glove to “staple” it so that you can throw a body shot (2) following the retracting strike of a larger opponent, (3) reading the decreasing range adjustments your opponent makes as they get “comfortable”.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-12522847794765864482017-11-18T23:53:00.001-06:002017-11-18T23:53:30.190-06:00Fall 2017 Megaton Dias Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Seminar<h3>Strategy, Technique, and Mechanics</h3>
<p>You need to apply strategy to win, taking the techniques you know to create reaction and opportunities to attack. You need one good takedown, one good guard pass, one good sweep, and one good submission. Thus we can prune techniques from our game because they are not optimally effective for our style or body type, but we cannot prune them from our mind because we must fully understand the art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.</p>
<p>Learning technique is easy, application and strategy taking time and sweat. There is no right or wrong, there are better and worse options.</p>
<p>Understand the mechanics of each movement and how it teaches you something in the greater context of jiu-jitsu. Understand what principle does the mechanic embody.</p>
<h3>Conditioning</h3>
<p>You will get into better shape with jiu-jitsu, but you cannot excel at jiu-jitsu unless you supplement your training with conditioning. </p>
<h3>Escape From the Rear Mount</h3>
<h4>“Dab"</h4>
<p>On the side you wish to slide to your back on, place the ipsilateral forearm on your forehead with your ear to your biceps. Your other arm comes across with the hand protecting the “negative air way”. This is a defensive posture to prevent grips around your neck.</p>
<h4>Seatbelt</h4>
<p>If they have the seatbelt, grab the top forearm with your ipsilateral hand and push down with the underhook side arm. You are going to have to go away from the overhook arm of the seatbelt to escape.</p>
<h4>Collar Control</h4>
<p>If they have collar control, grab the forearm of with your ipsilateral hand. You will have to go in the direction that their collar grip hand is pointing.</p>
<p>First, bridge up and move superiorly toward their head, this removes leverage for the choke. Next move your back to the floor on the appropriate side, either the one you selected with good defensive posture or the one your opponent has selected for you by their grips. Move your back to the floor, before they attempt to mount, shove their superior leg between yours and as they attempt to get on top, slide away to open guard.</p>
<h3>Worm Guard Sweep</h3>
<p>Control the distal end of their gi skirt, place your ipsilateral foot in their hip, wrap the skirt under your leg and pass it to your opposite hand. Regrip with the ipsilateral hand. They must either stand or post up on the opposite leg to set-up the rest of the worm guard, you may have to wrestle them to create reaction. Now pass the gi skirt behind the other leg, grab it with your opposite hand then regrab with your ipsilateral hand but now palm up. Bring your free leg behind the posteriorly wrapped leg and place the foot below your hip post post, anterior to their other leg. Control their near arm and pull them to their back as you roll on top of their legs, pinning them together. From here, either “hike” their leg through for the mount or slide your knee nearest their far hip to the floor, then pivot your other leg free to the side mount.</p>
<h3>Worm Guard Choke</h3>
<p>If you attempt the worm guard and they stay down, dropping their head to create pressure, pass the gi skirt under their neck and pass it to the opposite hand, your ipsilateral hand will regrab it with the arm behind the neck for the choke. The wrapped leg can come toward you, with the knee near the ear. The other hook can go wide or drop between the legs to bait your opponent to create more forward pressure.</p>
<h3>Worm Guard Armbar</h3>
<p>You have set up the worm guard but because they are in a tight kneeling position you cannot thread the leg for the sweep. Move laterally to your opponent and place the free foot across their distal shin. Pull anteriorly to allow your wrapped leg to slide above their knee and across their abdomen. If they fall forward, rotate 180° to a prone position to armbar. If they posture pull them backward into the standard cross body armbar.</p>
<h3>Two-on-one Guard Sweep</h3>
<p>You have cross grip control of the gi sleeve and ipsilateral grip control at the elbow. Your elbow grip side foot is in their hip. Grip their opposite heel with the elbow grip hand. Now your free leg goes behind their same side knee and you extend your post at the hip, sweeping them to their back and the ground.</p>
<h3>Two-on-one <em>Omoplata</em></h3>
<p>Use your elbow grip to pull anteriorly and up while the wrist grip pushed inferiorly and back, creating a window for you to pivot to the <em>omoplata</em>. Look for this when they a posturing more.</p>
<h3>Two-on-one Triangle</h3>
<p>Place your free foot in their cubital fossa, if they are bringing their head down/lowering their weight, pull their arm across as you move your foot in their elbow joint into the triangle.</p>
<h3>Spider Guard Armbar</h3>
<p>You have one foot in their hip with same side collar control and the opposite foot in the cubital fossa with ipsilateral sleeve control. If they have their hand on your pant leg you will have to free this grip, if they have control of your collar then cup their elbow and pull gently as you swing the leg over the head and squeeze with the opposite knee for the armbar.</p>
<h3>Spider Guard Triangle</h3>
<p> Use the same palm up guidance of their extended elbow to pull the forward as the elbow control side leg snakes behind the head for the triangle.</p>
<h3>Baseball Slide Pass</h3>
<p>When passing the guard look for one leg inside and one leg outside, now reach cross collar with the inside arm and drop your forearm laterally across your opponent’s neck as you slide your inside knee over and laterally to their thigh. Grab their gi sleeve on this side.</p>
<h3>Baseball Slide Counter Knee Bump</h3>
<p>If they are doing the knee slide, pinch their leg with yours and turn on your side, counter grab the gi sleeve with your same hand. Grab their belt with your top hand, using this hand and your top knee bump them forward to come to your knees.</p>
<h3>Baseball Slide Counter Roll</h3>
<p>Use your bottom leg to extend and pull you underneath your opponent in three “slides”. Place your palm on the lateral service of their far knee. Bridge and roll them to the far side. Bring your hook on the side closes to your opponent under his leg and lift, allowing your to insert your far hand and go to side mount.</p>
<h3>Leg Drag</h3>
<p>Cross grip their gi pant leg and grab under the heel with your ipsilateral hand. Hip bump forward and then pull your hip back, pull the leg to the far side, rotating your gi pant grip on the far side of their leg, lean forward placing their knee in your axilla. Now free this hand and grab their far collar, and lean toward this side bringing your knee between their legs and to the mat. Secure your position and walk around to the side mount.</p>
<h3>Second Degree <em>Faixa Preta</em></h3>
<p>Today I was promoted to second degree black belt. I don’t believe I’m that good of a black belt and I’ve done martial arts for so long that I don’t put much stock in promotions, stripes and belts anymore. To me you’re only as good as what you can back-up with your skills and only as talented as what you can transmit to others about doing the art. That being said, I’m tickled that my instructor and his instructor think enough of my evolving jiu-jitsu to promote me.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-31343202633418777682017-10-01T00:22:00.001-05:002017-10-01T00:22:17.830-05:00First Fall 2017 Ian Ransburg Dragon Leg Muay Thai Seminar<h3>Warm-Up</h3>
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<li><em>Jab</em>: Rock step to rear foot, then lead foot, back to the rear. As you rock forward step (both feet) and jab.</li>
<li><em>Jab-Rear Knee</em>: As with the jab above, after the jab rock to the rear foot and then as you rock forward, rise on the toes of the front foot, straighten the lead (base) leg, and deliver the rear knee. Point the knee to the midline, with the foot lateral. Return to your original stance.</li>
<li><em>Jab-Rear Knee-Rear Kick</em>: As with the jab-rear knee above, rock to the rear foot, as your rock to the lead foot, straighten the lead leg, bring the knee of the rear leg up, pointing at your target, then flick the foot for the kick. Bring it through 180° to the same stance.</li>
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<h3>Jab Counters</h3>
<p>If you play on the outside, you prune your opponent’s option, they have very few options to attack, e.g. the jab, <em>tiip</em>, possibly the kick.</p>
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<li><em>Rearward Slip Cross</em>: Catch-step back, catch-step back, rearward slip either just with your upper body or by stepping only the rear foot back. Return to upright (and return to regular stance) throw the cross.</li>
<li><em>Hook Catch to Elbow</em>: Catch-step back, catch-step back, catch and pull the jab laterally, throw the elbow in an upward diagonal with the lead. If they are punching hard, you will be able to pull them into the elbow. If they are flicking the jab, you will have to step forward with the lead foot to land the elbow.</li>
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<li><em>Catch to Lead Kick</em>: Catch-step back, catch-step back, catch and simultaneously switch step to throw the lead kick to the abdomen. As they drop their hand to protect their side, deliver the head kick (sometimes waiting 1-2 rounds to do this).</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Kick Defense</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: center;"><em>Blocking</em>: Roll the rear foot heel to the mat as this leg extends, bring the lead leg up about 20° off midline to meet the lead elbow (which will fit outside the knee). Toes pointing at the floor. We also did this alternating kicks to the body and the head.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eos4k65DW4Y" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></li>
<li><em>Catching</em>: To catch the kick, step laterally with the kick, the arm on the side that is getting kicked reaches high and laterally as the other hand cross midline to protect the face. Wrap the kick tightly by sucking the arm up.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li><em>Catch to Leg Sweep</em>: Once you have the leg caught, you can sweep the base leg. If they are leaning it is simple just to kick the leg out low between the calf and the foot. If they are standing up, then use your free hand to push as you sweep the leg.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Knee Counters</h3>
<p>A drill to practice knee range: Have your partner put one glove on their abdomen and the other on your shoulder. From here throw the knee to touch your partner’s glove and work on hip extension/thrusting of the knee.</p>
<p>When you clinch for knees with your partner, grab behind the neck with your lead hand (which your partner will mirror) and grab their cubital fossa with your rear hand. Place your forehead on their shoulder (not ear-to-ear!).</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Knee for Knee</em>: Throw the rear knee, they counter with their rear knee, throw the lead knee, they counter with their lead knee, rinse and repeat.</li>
</ul>
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<li><em>Snap Down to Body (or Head) Knee</em>: Throw the rear knee, they counter, throw the lead knee, drop step the lead knee back, snapping their head down, throw a straight knee to the (body) or head.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li><em>Knee to Dump</em>: This is a Thai-style s<em>ukui-nage</em>. Throw the rear knee, they counter, throw the lead knee, step this leg behind their leg almost creating a seat for them with your thigh. Keep control of the neck from behind, and place your front hand on their far hip (to prevent them turning back into you. Rise on your toes and bend the knee of the leg between their legs as you look over your shoulder to throw them.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Head up listening to the chest, legs square - think dead lift or squat with a slight lean.</li>
<li>The initial grip on the leg: lateral arm goes underneath the leg and is palm down, the medial hand is palm up.</li>
<li>To bring the leg up, drop your far leg back and the medial hand grabs the heel. Bring the leg up and guillotine it. To make him light on his base leg you want to guillotine at the ankle where the sock line would be, and lift. You can also punch up at the cubital fossa.</li>
<li>Pass to the side mount by putting them in a fetal position.</li>
</ul>
<p>If they whizzer you by overlooking and grabbing the inside of their thigh, bringing their leg to the outside, switch to the knee tap. Underhook and punch up as you step around the near leg, loading them on their far leg. As you pressure forward tap the lateral side of the far leg with your free hand. The punch literally acts a wedge to tilt them onto one leg which you briefly block to let them fall.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-68560707232293521392017-09-17T22:04:00.001-05:002017-09-24T21:39:58.455-05:00Leg day! Singles and kicks<h2>Wrestling</h2>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="stepping-diagram.007.jpeg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9h7A_yYgCPaQmOXR78chyphenhyphenXbbhh2q-bswugkL7twgTvbRldC9UVNg3L0NCRZMivko8rbH6MeCoYeC6UmBJ7jrk9O4zHuu4q1o5TbJRtckB3FminF_-pwmX_N85nz2a5dKbBoNHYA/?imgmax=1600" alt="Opposite lead set-up" width="512" height="384" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Figure 1</strong>: If you want to do a single leg and you are in opposite leads, you will need to do a drop pivot step for them to switch leads so that they are mirror with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From your wrestling stance, lead hand protecting your lead leg (the most likely one to be attacked) and rear hand to make contact with your opponent (feel their movement). Use the “wristwatch grip”: grab the medial side of the ipsilateral wrist just proximal to the hand. If their lead foot is a mirror image to you, proceed directly to the single (<strong>Figure 2</strong>). If your leads are opposite, use your rear hand to pull them in a 90° pivot by dropping your rear leg back and keeping your same lead (<strong>Figure 1</strong>) then proceed to the single as above (<strong>Figure 2</strong>). Use your wristwatch grip to twist it anteriorly so their thumb is pointed to the rear. This opens the “door" for you to fit your shoulder inside as you step with your lead leg behind their lead leg (creating shelf behind their lead thigh), with your head on their chest listening to their heart, eyes up. Push with your head and pick their leg up, slide your arms in a guillotine grip at the ankle. Lift up to bend their knee, drawing them closer. Use your far leg to hook their base leg with the bottom of your foot.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="stepping-diagram.006.jpeg" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PRLLk741mUq4VqdR2pqES65uyFSksdDx-FWQAmTAQHQH6GTl4Ept92-oPODXBepPSNXxkc1b-z_FStTbTYxjq-JfiyImH8MdUlncbHqOeNeDeSmNbM-190e-Fgv1AZfpPMpSKw/?imgmax=1600" alt="Single leg footwork" width="512" height="384" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="text-align: center;">Figure 2</strong><span style="text-align: center;">: From mirrored stances, set up the single leg by stepping behind their lead leg.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">Once they are on the ground, you can clear the leg and pass to the side mount. Alternatively you can knee or kick their leg, followed by punching to the head with your far hand.</span></p>
<h2>Striking</h2>
<p>See the <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/goshinjitsu.org/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Z29zaGluaml0c3Uub3JnfGhvbWV8Z3g6M2IwZTY3NWQzZjZhOWRlYQ">Fall 2017 Mokuroku</a> pg 39.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-9172110341275073032017-08-06T23:55:00.001-05:002017-08-07T00:05:36.428-05:00Regardless of the "Rules of Engagement", The Human Body Can Only Move In So Many Ways<p>Warm-Up:</p>
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<p>Well at least some of them.</p>
<p>Hands - head - forearms - hips are the layers of defense in takedowns. Thus protect the lead leg with your lead hand, elbow at knee height, hand in front of the knee. Keep your head at or below your opponent’s. Use your rear hand to check and range find their head or shoulder. If they do not clear your lead hand it, your arm blocks the takedown with the help of the hip, checking into them perpendicularly.</p>
<p>To do the snap down your rear hand cups the head and the lead hand their elbow pull them down and lateral to your lead leg, using your legs not just your arms. Then double leg them laterally.</p>
<p>If they grab your wrist with their ipsilateral hand pull them across your body and grab their wrist with your free hand while freeing your hand. Pull to the single leg.</p>
<p>Remember that you must be eye-to-eye to engage your opponent, when you are ear-to-ear your are in a stalemated defense. To break this pull them forward, then push their ipsilateral elbow medially to break their clinch.</p>
<p>90° muay thai pivot drills.</p>
<p>Lead pivot: Rear kick, your opponent with step toward you, while you step 45° anterior laterally with the lead foot, check hand with your head hand (which will remain lead), pivot to the same stance, cross, lead hook, rear kick. Repeat. The lead pivot is easier but unless your are opposite leads will mean you are pivoting into their power side.</p>
<p>Rear pivot, version #1: Rear kick, your opponent with step toward you, while you step 45° anterior laterally with the rear foot, check hand with your rear hand (which will become your new lead hand), pivot to the opposite stance, cross, lead hook, rear kick. Repeat. This allows you to pivot to their weak side but is more complicated because of the lead switch.</p>
<p>Rear pivot, version #2: Rear kick, lead hook, cross, your opponent with step toward you, while you step 45° anterior laterally with the rear foot, check hand with your rear hand (which will become your new lead hand), pivot to the opposite stance, rear kick, lead hook, cross, pivot step. Repeat.</p>
<p> </p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-6423666293603233382017-06-14T23:06:00.001-05:002017-06-14T23:06:29.058-05:00Wristwatch Grip<p>Grab the medial side of the ipsilateral hand palm to the posterior side of their hand, twist it anteriorly so their thumb is pointed to the rear. From here step in next to them shooting the underhook and “popping” their near chest with your shoulder, options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Reach down with your free hand and then your underhook hand to secure their near leg. Take a step back to “drop them in the hole”.</li>
<li>If they step the foot back to avoid the single leg, drive your underhook up, as you step past them and knee tap the far leg</li>
<li>If they try to whizzer with their overhook, control their head with your free hand, elbow pointed to the mat with your forearm along the neck, a drop step first your near foot (the underhook side) then your rear foot to spin them to the mat.</li>
</ol>
<p>Later we took this same set-up of striking, using the catch and parry to underhook and do the same takedowns.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-81210891940841214762017-05-17T22:18:00.000-05:002017-05-17T22:18:22.606-05:00Combinations or Combinatorics Combinations are the closest thing combat sports gets to forms, e.g. <i>kata, poomse, </i>etc. They are phenomenal tools for making "words" out of the alphabet soup of techniques taught. They train form in an engaging manner and work cardio by their repeated application. To fight these combinations must be contextualized and made tactical. They need to be applied with and without rhythm. They must be improvised in the timing and speed they are delivered. Otherwise they doom us to low yield applications of high yield fundamentals.<br />
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Tonight we worked the jab-cross-kick or 1-2-kick set-up of the hands, in three ways:<br />
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<ol>
<li>Jab and multiple jab until the cross opens, e.g. corrections to defend the jab open the cross line.</li>
<li>Jab-catch jab-cross: Your jab forces the counter jab opening the line for your cross.</li>
<li>Jab-evade kick-cross: Your opponents provoked response is the tiip or kick,which you evade by clearing or pulling your lead leg back.</li>
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Next time we'll review this and delve into the addition of the lead kick.</div>
Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0Activities and Recreation Center, 201 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, USA40.1008296 -88.23555549999997540.0993116 -88.238076999999976 40.102347599999995 -88.233033999999975tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-73143436832433106582017-01-27T23:35:00.001-06:002017-01-27T23:35:14.361-06:00The Clinch is a Cinch<p>A private lesson on the clinch. First about the grip:</p>
<ul>
<li>Classic plum position your make your hands two hooks and grab the neck</li>
<li>Fist grip: Place the thumb of one fist behind the neck and grab this hand with your opposite hand.</li>
<li>Gable grip: Grip palm to palm keeping one forearm across the back of your opponents neck, use this to leverage, e.g. twist down to be able knee to the head.</li>
</ul>
<div>You can if necessary head pummel in so that your head is under or lateral to your opponent’s chin. This allows you to see where your knees are going.</div>
<h4>Pressuring drill</h4>
<p>Throw soft hook knees. Your partner pressures into you, either on the left, right, or middle. If they push to one side, drop step away from this side, If they push center, choose a side and drop step. Deliver a knee with the drop step leg.</p>
<h4>Knee drop step, knee takedown</h4>
<p>Throw a hook knee, place this foot near and lateral to your opponent. Drop step with the opposite foot and throw a knee with this side. Repeat as you move them around the ring. From the hook knee, place your foot next to your opponent and transition into a lunge, bending them backward with your body. Pull with your far hand and push with your near hand over your leg.</p>
<h4>Countering the overclinch</h4>
<p>You have your opponent in the full clinch, they clinch over your arms. Rapidly elevate the elbow on one side, twisting your body to bring it nearly vertical. This should throw them off you.</p>
<h4>Countering the counter to the overclinch</h4>
<p>If you are the one clinching over your opponent’s arms and they attempt to do the elbow lift, go limp on that side and pummel inside to get underhooks.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-34943223016396849272016-11-12T19:00:00.000-06:002016-11-13T00:51:44.495-06:00Ian Ransburg Top Level Gym Dragon Leg Style Muay Thai Seminar<p>Warm-up: 50 jumping jacks</p>
<h4>Catching the Kick Series</h4>
<p>Range find by rocking up on the toes of your rear leg, straightening the lead leg, extending your lead hand and touching your opponent’s hands. You should be just be able to touch them. This allows you to find them but be far enough out of range to counter.</p>
<p>When you kick your base leg straightens and your posture remains as erect as possible.</p>
<p>Your opponent uses the range finder to set-up the rear kick. Catch this kick at the ankle, stepping with the kick and wrapping your arm over and pulling your hand high on your chest. You will typically try to drop this to your hand and then throw across your body, spinning your opponent’s back to you allowing you to kick them.</p>
<p>They can counter this throw of their leg by squaring up with you, as if they had thrown a <em>tiip</em> and then curling their kicking leg back as if to load another <em>tiip</em>, pulling you forward. They then deliver a <em>tiip</em> to push kick you away.</p>
<p>If your opponent attempts the <em>tiip</em> counter, pull their foot laterally and step medially to it, reaching across to grab the neck and delivering a same side knee. Without letting go of their kicking leg, step forward with your kneeing leg and deliver a same side elbow. Now step back with the knee leg to clear their leg you are holding and throw it to the opposite, spinning their back to you. Deliver a kick.</p>
<p>If they have your <em>tiip</em> grabbed with the mirror opposite hand, roll your foot medially and twist to the floor. Keep your eyes on your opponent and land on the ball of this foot. If they close, throw a rear side/thrust kick, then step away and pivot back to face them.</p>
<h4>“Combat Hug” Clinch</h4>
<p>Your opponent is using the range finder, as you parry they reach to clinch, tuck your chin and cover with the elbow high. Stop their opposite biceps with your contralateral hand. Put your head on this side as you wrap your high cover arm around their neck, their neck in the antecubit of the arm, your wrist curled around the opposite side of their neck. Square your legs up, your midline in front of their hip on the arm control side. Drop this elbow in to their side. Turn your face away from your opponent.</p>
<p>Put your forehead on their shoulder so you can see their legs. Throw a curve knee on the side opposite your head. As they return the mirror knee, pull on their neck and drop step 45° on this side, return the knee on this side. They throw the opposite curve knee, pull on their arm and drop step 45° on this side. Repeat on the original side.</p>
<p>If you wish to throw your opponent, look for them to throw the curve knee on your arm control side. As they do, pull their neck by twisting your body and drawing the arm inferiorly toward the hip while simultaneously pushing their arm.</p>
<p>To defend this clinch, underhook the arm wrapped around the neck by placing the palm of the glove on their face. Rotate the shoulder and hip forward, locking their arm out. If they retain a grip on the other arm, rotate over the top and deliver knees. Drop step to bring their head down to deliver knees here.</p>
<p>If an opponent is pushing away as above, when you clinch overhook this arm, cinching proximal to the elbow. Take a slight step back, sliding distal to the elbow, and bring your arm medially and superiorly twisting their elbow medially. Pass their other arm underneath this glove and trap it. Now deliver elbows with your free arm.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-87604721049845934572016-10-18T22:24:00.001-05:002016-10-18T22:24:58.323-05:00Escaping the MountFirst, use an upa to move their weight forward. Then push their knee and shrimp your leg free, overhook with this leg in half-guard. Switch to your opposite hip and frame the neck and far biceps. Escape to the guard.<div><br></div><div>If you cannot move their knee, shrimp way from their leg to create space to bring your knee inside. Switch hips and frame to escape your other leg into hooks inside guard.</div><div><br></div><div>If they are defending you pushing their knee, tilt on your hip and bring your leg over to their opposite leg, dragging their foot between your legs. Now push to establish half-guard and then shrimp to guard.</div><div><br></div><div>If they grapevine your leg, straighten one rapidly then shrimp out. Alternatively you can push their hook off with your opposite foot. If they cross their ankles, step on them and then shrimp.</div>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-4067672946494871222016-10-08T22:22:00.001-05:002016-10-08T22:22:40.255-05:00Reactive < Active < Proactive<p>Everyone can react, some can act, the best can be proactive.</p>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18449045.post-49004729923894559712016-10-01T23:25:00.001-05:002016-10-01T23:25:34.772-05:00Hashtag something really tough...GRRRR<p>Warm-up combinations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jab-cross-double lead kick</li>
<li>Jab-cross-lead kick-rear kick</li>
<li>Jab-cross-rear kick-lead kick</li>
<li>Jab-cross-double rear kick</li>
</ul>
<p>Pummeling set-ups</p>
<ul>
<li>Stop the biceps of the overhook, arm wrench the underhook, throw an elbow to their head, catch the neck knee, guillotine</li>
<li>Knee, lift their leg, penetrate step and ipsilateral inside sweep, groin shot</li>
<li>Catch wrist (or redirect with pummeling hand) and pass to arm drag, step to the back while passing their arm further to the a “seatbelt” (contralateral wrist control from behind, ipsilateral control at the elbow). Step between their legs with your leg on the wrist control side and drop to your knee, dragging your opponent laterally to the mat.</li>
<li>Block their overhook, drive up with your underhook, step off 45°, lower your level and run them down with the double leg</li>
</ul>
<p>Guard work against the posturing opponent</p>
<ul>
<li>Your opponent postures with one hand wrapping your lapels at your solar plexus, you can break their grip by pulling your gi laterally like your flashing your opponent.</li>
<li>You can cross collar over their grip and then gi drag when they try to stand.</li>
<li>You can get a cross collar over their grip, make it deeper by propping on your free elbow, then sit back pulling them forward. Cross grip their posture arm sleeve. Prepare for the arm bar by placing the foot in the hip, if they lean forward to close the line, put your knee over their shoulder and triangle. Push way with your legs to set-up the armor.</li>
</ul>Mike Arefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304341470388494noreply@blogger.com0